Tanya Basu
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Alan Cleaver/Flickr Serial Episode 8: A Study in Bias?
Four Atlantic staffers discuss the latest installment of the podcast, in which listeners finally learn more about Jay.
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Hotly Wanting Records Why Actresses Reinvent Themselves as Folk—Not Pop—Singers
By creating more stripped-down music, female celebrities keep the focus on their voices, not their bodies.
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Mohammed Jaffer/Reuters Bollywood's Holy Day Goes Abroad
This Diwali, India is boosting stagnant ticket sales by spreading the joys of three-hour song and dance flicks to foreign shores.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters Oscar de la Renta's All-American Fashion Revolution
The designer, now dead at 82, legitimized U.S. style in the eyes of the world.
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Themeplus/Flickr What Does 'Islamophobia' Actually Mean?
A brief history of a provocative word
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Mike_Mozart/Flickr The Company That Tested Pumpkin-Spice Foie-Gras Mashed Potatoes
And other tales of the popular synthetic flavor
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters The Gender Politics of Pockets
The iPhone 6 may be the great catalyst in including this oft-ignored aspect of women's fashion.
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Catriona Savage/Flickr France's Troubled Romance With Beef
Is French gourmet culture becoming less French?
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DryHundredFear/Flickr The 'Other' America
From The Atlantic’s archive: Two stories that emphasize how far we’ve come since writers talked about “the Jewish problem”
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Parth Sanyal/Reuters An 83-Year-Old Song Dominates India's Airwaves Every Year
The Hindu holiday of Durga Puja and the enduring hit that gets it started
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Horia Varlan/Flickr The New Demographics of Suicide
A new report from the World Health Organization challenges notions of who's at greatest risk.
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Martin Varsavsky/Flickr Oy Vey: Yiddish Has a Problem
The language is mostly spoken by Orthodox Jews who want to set themselves apart from the modern world. Is there a future for Yiddish in other communities?
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Pantone The Money of Color
Trendiness gets commercialized, and hues are no exception.
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Wikimedia Commons The Fading Memory of South Asia's Partition
The survivors of the largest mass migration in history are dying. One organization is scrambling to record their stories.
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Wikimedia Commons Dolley Madison Risked Her Life for a Portrait of Washington—With a Typo
An American treasure saved during the War of 1812 misspells "the United States of America."
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Louafi Larbi/Reuters Why Are There So Few Ramadan Marketing Campaigns?
The month-long holiday ends tonight, meaning many retailers have missed another opportunity to pitch to America's growing Muslim population.
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Toby Melville/Reuters The Myth of the Beyoncé Voter
All the single ladies… aren’t the same.
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Simon Newman/Reuters Down but Not Out: The Uncertain Future of the Crossword Puzzle
The future of puzzling is as fluid as the English language itself.
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Sergey Galyonkin/Flickr How Church Sales Reflect the Shifting American Demographic
Say goodbye to your corner church and namaste to the mandir—sales of houses of worship are a window to America’s changing population.
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Ricardo Moraes/Reuters How Many People in the World Are Actually Poor?
Good news: Economists at Oxford have come up with a better method for measuring global poverty. Bad news: There are way more poor people than previously thought.
